Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Twin Peaks: The Return 2017

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 May 2021

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 08 Sep 2020

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Recent reviews

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  Opus 2025

  ★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  That ‘I’ve watched this film before’ button was made for films like this.

  Derivative to the point of being an A24 parody. Hopefully fulfils some sort of an itch for a trilogy alongside The Menu and Blink Twice, and we can be done with this kind of thing. Opus hits such familiar beats and fulfils its own sets ups in such unsatisfying and tired ways. Pacing issues aside it’s fairly competently made, just so instantly forgettable and tired.

  Treat yourself to a rewatch of Con Air and Burn After Reading to get some of that Malkovich magic, though he’s clearly having fun here.

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  Being John Smith 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2025

  (Currently screening at Kate MacGarry Gallery, alongside stills from the film, until the 15th February)

  An absolute pleasure to spend half an hour in the company of a new John Smith film. From the off this is such an endearing celebration of the self, a very hard trick to pull off for any filmmaker. Smith reflects on his own sense of self, mixing his trademark mundanity and wry humour, into an accessible yet undeniably avant-garde work. Tate & Lyle a highlight,…

Popular reviews

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  Anima 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jun 2019

  Who knew Thom Yorke would be the Buster Keaton 2019 was in need of 🙌

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  Clerks III 2022

  ½ Watched 18 Mar 2023

  I honestly thought this couldn’t get any worse, then the director’s commentary starts over the end credits.